What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

Thats pretty good, how much they respray of clear coat cost you?

 

No... the hole in the Tstat goes at 6 o'clock.

That's what @Timmah! said, so thats what I did... I'm at 195° no matter what conditions.

 

Sorry man.

Read the warranty

Warranty will be voided under the following nonexclusive conditions:

1. The vehicle is used for commercial or fleet, governmental, off-road or racing applications.

So...just make sure you don't let them know you offroad! haha

 

0.5mm is unacceptable. I don't have a dial indicator to check but I'd guess it's closer to 1mm of play.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvnqkAUxdgI

 

It's very common to see that type of language in any Warranty, including products specifically for Off Road use.

 

Just installed these spc control arms. wow they are amazing !!!

 

About 45 bucks in sand paper, primer, paint and clear coat, from O'reillys. Re-painted my driver fender due to rotting clear coat. Doesn't match perfectly at certain angles and light conditions... but certainly came out good enough that I would definately do the roof before paying a shop.

Didn't even remove the fender... just taped everything else off.

 

So I attempted to adjust my SPCs tonight and ran into an issue I wasnt expecting...the camber getting thrown way off.

I found it easy enough to adjust the caster, just jack the front end up, loosen the top bolt and turn the ball joint. Easy.
The instructions make it sound like you can do either the camber or the caster independently, except as soon as you loosen the top nut, the ball joint also slides side to side freely and messes up the camber big time. I tried readjusting it after I got my caster where I wanted it, but when I put the truck back on the ground and my front tires looked like this \ / haha.

Luckily I was able to put the whole setup back to the way it was before I messed with it...have an alignment tomorrow just in case.
So are you just supposed to eyeball the camber when adjusting the caster with these? Then take it in and have a shop fine tune it? I don't see how you can adjust caster without messing with the camber as well.

 

You can't, but you can adjust camber without adjusting castor. A bubble level would likely get you close enough. You'd need to account for the bulge in the bottom of the tire though.

 

Makes sense, was difficult to keep my camber/caster settings in place when I went to torque down the top nut...soon as I started getting torque on it the whole thing would twist and slide. Had to try and hold the tire and ball joint in place while I was doing it lol.

I gave up for the night since I have a trail run this weekend I didn't want to mess anything up. Gonna see if the offroad shop doing my alignment tomorrow can get it to where I wanted it.

 

Made it do some truck stuff. Changed out my tires ,I put on the super low mileage tires that I had bought before getting the F5's.
And I failed at picture taking .
Also had code P0120 pop up. Looks like I'll be cleaning out my throttle body seeing as this is the second time its come up.

 

Got the used tank for under $100.

Afraid to check mine. But I should.

 

Great looking truck -- I dig the F5s on there.
Maybe shoot some black rattle can at the fenders?

 

My passenger side CV boot ripped. So Ill be taking care of that today.

 

But he's right, the f5s do look good.... I think I know where they came from

 

Unless its for an 03 or 04 then its not cheap.

 

Started rebuilding the junk yard TRD rear end today. Hope to have it finished by late afternoon.

 

I was still running your tires tell this pic too.
Their about to get changed out for some new hotness once I figure out what tires I want to get.

 

sounds like a good idea. Do you think the ntk's ?

thanks I've been trying to but I suck at painting. I think I'm going to have then raptor lined.